Traditionally, scaling Drupal to handle a large volume of content or a large number of authenticated users has involved complex, time-consuming, and costly database configurations. Thankfully, ParElastic has developed a solution to meet the people Drupal scaling needs. The ParElastic database virtualization Engine greatly simplifies server and database optimization by: scaling their database to grow and shrink in support of varying content and web traffic, eliminating the need to configure Drupal to recognize multiple database servers.